PSA: There are a Lot of Stupid People in this World.
No, really! Not any of Your People, DR. Not in My Herd, either. Well.. I take that back: I do have a few Stupid ones, skulking around the edges. I toss them a bone every so often, because I feel sorry for them.
They are gonna feel really stupid later on, in Hindsight.
But hey! I “did My part.” I paid My dues. I got My nose bloodied, a black eye or two… and now? In Current Day? I am way more discriminating – AKA “selective” – about whom I choose to waste My limited time on, IRL.
And I’m allowed to decide this, for Myself. I am the Boss of Myself, and there’s No Test. And Nobody ever got fired for saying “I don’t know.” [N: that’s a trick for the Smart People – if You find Yourself in a toxic work environment, especially after a long time of “picking up everybody else’s slack?” Just start acting dumb. [N: that way they leave You in peace while You look for Your next job loll] “When in Rome…”
Here’s another example of Stupid: this saying, in the title of this Story. This doesn’t mean My decision-making is flawed; I have to make mistakes to learn anything relevant in My Own Life – which I can’t learn by osmosis. But what Stupid Does is “open My mouth & reveal” that I, personally, lack the same data in My Files as You have in Your Files, DR… but instead of letting You Plant Seeds for Me, and Me quietly percolate on them for awhile? Imma open My big f#cking mouth & attack” You. For daring to think differently than Me. For daring to create variances in TECH’s data – because that sh#t hurts My SB. [N: “growing pains”] And any @$$hole Who “hurts Me” in any way, shape or form – regardless of the air-quotes ‘reason’ – is gonna get their @$$ kicked.
You may think it’s PASSION that is being triggered, but No: It’s TECH being triggered here. PASSION is just the heavy, holding the proverbial bag. PASSION is just the one that starts punching & kicking & screaming & fighting. But TECH started it. Why? Because the Other Person is giving Me – TECH, specifically – more data that is “foreign” to My current understanding of this Concept that We (You & Me) are talking about, right now. So it’s technically not a “difference of opinion…” it’s a difference of the data in Our Files that’s causing the conflict.
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Conner’s Comments: Everything I explain here, DR? Makes sense to Me, in My Own SB. If You “think about it” differently? You are Right. [N: AKA Not Wrong] I’m merely trying to give You a starting point – similar to Franklin Covey time management class. The FCTM Folks taught Me how their cool time management binder was intended to be used – Conceptually – and then cut Me loose at the end of the class: “Use this binder however You want. Make it Your Own.” You won’t hurt My feelings, I swear! [N: and as You know, I have zero problems swearing loll] And one more thing: Your personal Experience data, DR? That data – when You share it – is still sort of Conceptual data to Me. [N: i.e. it didn’t happen to Me, firsthand]
I don’t think You are Stupid, DR. I think You are… close-minded.